Raul Grijalva Quotes

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

The American taxpayers should not have to send one more penny on the Administration's Iraq misadventure. Let's give our troops the supplies they need to get out of Iraq safely. Let's bring our troops home.

The American people have decided that it was a mistake to choose to go to war in Iraq.

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

I believe sincerely that we should bring in U.N. peacekeepers and bring our troops home.

For three years now, our brave men and women in uniform have done everything their country has asked of them, yet President Bush still does not have a plan to win the peace in Iraq and bring our troops home.

What I see as the greatest threat to America is that the American people will put political pressure on their leaders to pull out of Iraq before we should.

I thought Iraq was the wrong war at the wrong time and have been fighting to get the Administration to stop its failed policy and bring our troops home.

I agree with the President that second-guessing is not a strategy, but at the same time, I want to continue the dialogue that ultimately will lead to bringing all of our troops home.

This wretched war in Iraq which we never should have started, we don’t seem to be able to win, and we don’t know how to get out of …

It [the Vietnam War] is worse than immoral. It's a mistake.

The American people are sick of our failed regime change wars.

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

President Obama is sending a couple hundred troops to Iraq. We spent six years trying to figure a way to get out of Iraq. And now we're back. But this time there is an exit strategy. Barack Obama has an exit strategy. In 2016, he's gone.

The United States must reach out to the world community with a new plan to stabilize Iraq, bring U.N. peacekeepers in, and bring U.S. troops home.

There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the American people.

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq.

We, Britain and Germany, can neither of us be happy about our handling of the Iraq war.

There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous.

The war in Iraq has been extremely divisive here at home, and has also divided the world community.

Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq.

I oppose the spending of trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan, I strongly oppose Islamic extremism but don't believe that sending troops to die in two unwinnable wars makes sense.

The war in Iraq will end, our troops will come home, Bush will be impeached and he will be brought to justice.

Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

Any Congressional agreement of an arbitrary time table to bring our troops home before we have accomplished our mission is unacceptable and could potentially increase the risk to our soldiers.